Eison was a Japanese Buddhist monk active in the mid-Kamakura period. He founded the Shingon Risshu. Eison was born in Mikata village, Soejō District, Yamato Province, the son of the scholar-monk Keigen of Kōfuku-ji.
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Eison was a Japanese Buddhist monk active in the mid-Kamakura period. He founded the Shingon Risshu. Eison was born in Mikata village, Soejō District, Yamato Province, the son of the scholar-monk Keigen of Kōfuku-ji. He is regarded as one of the representative figures of Kamakura Buddhism, known for reviving the neglected Buddhist precepts and restoring the declining Saidai-ji in Nara.
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Lived 1201 to 1290 · aged 89
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